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Daniel P. Berrange
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The network and nwfilter drivers both have a need to update firewall rules. The currently share no code for interacting with iptables / firewalld. The nwfilter driver is fairly tied to the concept of creating shell scripts to execute which makes it very hard to port to talk to firewalld via DBus APIs. This patch introduces a virFirewallPtr object which is able to represent a complete sequence of rule changes, with the ability to have multiple transactional checkpoints with rollbacks. By formally separating the definition of the rules to be applied from the mechanism used to apply them, it is also possible to write a firewall engine that uses firewalld DBus APIs natively instead of via the slow firewalld-cmd. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>